Doctor's Baby Dies in Hot Car

myfoxst.1 ^ | 08/23/07 | fox

[TornadoAlley3]

Each Parent Thought The Other Was Taking Daughter To Child Care

ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI-myFOXstl.com) --

A 7 month old baby girl died after police say she was left in a locked car for 4 hours in the sweltering summer heat.

[SIDENET]

Each Parent Thought The Other Was Taking Daughter To Child Care

So who put her in the car and walked off?

[caseinpoint]

Maybe it’s time to start putting babies back in the front seat. Seems these large vehicles swallow little kids so their parents forget they are even there. Tragic.

[laweeks]

Hey, Mommie and Daddie were on the fastrack. Kids are expendable and, obviously, forgetable.

Hope they’re proud of themselves.

[Mygirlsmom]

Horrible. I, however, simply can’t understand the
“we each thought the other took her to daycare” thing. Someone had to buckle this little one into her carseat. I’ve forgotten a few things in my time, but the fact that I had a baby in the back of my car was never one of them.

[Arthur McGowan]

I’m surprised no one has come out with a baby monitor that would automatically call the parents’ cell phones in such situations—e.g., when a button on the monitor hasn’t been pushed within 20 minutes, or if the temperature rises above 80 degrees, etc. I hope I haven’t just given away a $1Billion idea.

[Killborn]

Hell, if this could happen, I can definitely see how a K-9 officer can forget his poor partner.

Prayers for the deceased and the bereaved.

[Fintan]

Why do these people procreate?

[visualops]

Someone was the last one to walk away from the car. I fail to see how one can have that sort of “mixup”.

[Arthur McGowan]

I’d bet: 1) These people both have ADD, which is real, and can be a major disability; 2) Their marriage does not survive this.

[Mygirlsmom]

All you’d need to do is have the baby’s bag in front with you. That visual should be enough to remind a person who is so distracted that they forget they are parents.

[Ramius]

Swell. Another summer and another round of these stories. Given that it seems every single one gets reported like this, how about we be thankful that they are as rare as they are.

But no... Out come the long knives and those who think there is actually some punishment that will be meaningful.

[buccaneer81]

Their marriage does not survive this.

I'd say that's a given.

[Obadiah]

Don’t be so quick to cast stones here. A child napping quietly in the backseat and your so focus is in front of you as you get out of the car with your mind elsewhere. This is a tragic, tragic occurrence.

[Kimmers]

I am thinking the same thing, getting to that all important job is far more important than taking care of a child.

I find this to be inexcusable!!!!

[caseinpoint]

Excellent idea. Hadn’t thought of that. Guess the heat’s getting to me.

[laweeks]

“getting to that all important job is far more important than taking care of a child.”

Now, you know they WOULDN’T dare leave their laptop computer, show dog, nor cellular phone in the car, but then it’s only a baby. Disgusting. And the article seemed to feel bad for the parents (read near the end). I feel disgust with them.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/07/29/deaths_of_children_in_hot_cars_rising/

Since the mid-1990s, the number of children who died of heat exhaustion inside vehicles has risen dramatically, totaling around 340 in the past 10 years. Ironically, one reason is a change parent-drivers made to protect children after juvenile air-bag deaths peaked in 1995: They put them in the back seat, where they are more easily forgotten.

The correlation between the rise in these deaths and the 1990s move to put children in the back seat is striking.

“Up to that time, the average number of children dying of hyperthermia in the United States was about 11 a year,” says Jan Null, an adjunct professor of meteorology at San Francisco State University who has studied this trend. “Then we put them in the back, turned the car seats around. And from ‘98 to 2006, that number is 36 a year.”

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

AND IF YOU HAVE.... you will receive such an amazing amount of blessings that no money could buy!

[basil]

I'm sorry---IMHO, there's no excuse for this. We had 5 kids in 9 years--in Texas in the summer, and somehow, I managed to never forget one in the car.

However, I was never hooked into a career (other than motherhood), and dropping my kids off at day care either, so maybe that's the difference.

Regardless, I do feel sorry for these parents. How on earth do you ever recover from something like this? Prayers for them..........